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OFFHAND
Distress from stress
SURPRISINGLY, automated, touch-screen lifestyle and paperless offices have been of no help in guaranteeing a stress-free existence. Mobile phones, the ubiquitous Internet and wireless application protocols seem to be ...
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GLOBAL FINANCE & OVERVIEW
Investors, frogs and Yellowstone effect
The current firmness in equity prices is akin to the warm glow of pleasure that a frog may feel when water begins to boil. Resistance to the fundamental deterioration through manipulation of technical indicators and through the provision of liquidity would be to set the stock market up for a Yellowstone effect, which is the consequence of an extreme event, says V. Anantha Nageswaran, cautioning investors.
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ON THE MOVE
Shipping Minister's visit to Mumbai — Wind taken out of shipowner's sails
PRIVATE SECTOR shipowners looking forward to the Union Shipping Minister, Mr T. R. Baalu's forthcoming, and maiden, visit to Mumbai — home to 90 per cent of Indian shipping lines — later this month seem a ...
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A RINGSIDE VIEW
Optimism pervades in all corners
Media reports that the President has given his assent to the Finance Bill sent shivers down the spine of some market players during the weekend.
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
Mutual fund IPOs get good responses
IPO collection numbers are not the last word in the realm of mutual funds, but newcomer ABN Amro MF's mobilisation of over Rs 2,000 crore does tell a tale. How the MF garnered it all - the liquid scheme alone has managed to pull in more than ...
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ADR WATCH
Infy hits 52-week high as IT counters sizzle
BOTH the US and the domestic markets finished in positive territory last week thanks to solid buying support. As the drop in oil prices eased concern, the US benchmarks - Standard & Poor's 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average - ...
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SAY CHEEK
Following the fossil tracks
Rewind to some 220 million years ago when reptiles took to the skies, competing with insects.
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ERRORS & OMISSIONS EXPECTED
Why is there no service tax on lawyers?
KARKARDOOMA court complex of Delhi was in the news recently because of a scuffle between a lawyer and a cop. As with any melee, there is always confusion for onlookers, because you don't know who beat whom, especially when each side said it was ...
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RANDOM WALK
Two projects, one hope
LAST week saw announcements on two infrastructure projects that augur well for Kerala. The first related to the imminent clearance from the Union Government for the International Container Trans-shipment Terminal of the Cochin Port Trust (CPT) at ...
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MARK TO MARKET
Index funds do not really lower risks
THE Pension Fund Regulation and Development Authority (PFRDA) has suggested in its draft proposal that pension funds should only invest in index funds. The reason is that non-index funds run active risk. This is the ...
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